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Ginger is a useful stomach stimulant, and prevents 

 griping, for which reason it is added to purgatives. 



Dose for horses is one-half to one ounce; for cows one 

 to four ounces; sheep one to four drams. 



Carbolic Acid is used externally, one to fifty parts of 

 water; it is the common antiseptic. 



Quinine and Whiskey are largely used as bracers for sheep 

 when at shows, and are very useful if these charges of 

 the shepherd are a bit off feed. 



Corrosive Sublimate (perchloride of mercury) is a 

 deadily poison, albeit, a reliable antiseptic, added to 

 water, one to one or two thousand parts of water. It is 

 best procured in the form of tablets, the same as used 

 for preserving milk samples for the composite test. 

 Another form of mercury is the red iodide, used for 

 blisters, for which purpose it is mixed with from six to 

 eight parts of sweet lard or vaseline. 



Poultices are much used in diseases of the feet or for 

 painful wounds. The material used may be bran, tur- 

 nips, linseed meal or spent hops, the nurse will have to 

 adapt whatever may be at his disposal in order to apply 

 them, old gunny sacks or salt bags are sometimes used. 

 It is essential that all poultices be kept moist, and in the 

 majority of cases hot. In warm weather they must not 

 be allowed to sour or remain on too long or the wound 

 will be made worse rather than better, due to the in- 

 creased germ population. In such cases an ounce of 

 creolin added to the poultice will be useful. A clean 

 sweet poultice is made with folds of cheese cloth soaked 

 in a hot carbolic acid or corrosive sublimate solution. 



Poisons and Their Antidotes. Drugs administered 

 in too large or too frequent doses become poisons, a few 



